Juliane’s happiness seems perfect. She is head over heels in love and has just begun a new life with August. One morning, however, she wakes up to find that she has been mysteriously thrown back into her past – to the time before she met her new love. Is what seems at first glance as a cruel setback actually a second chance…? Hendrik Handloegten directed the award-winning films Paul Is Dead (2000), Learning to Lie (2003) and co-wrote the script to Good-bye Lenin! (2003). –TrustNordisk
Hendrik Handloegten was born in 1968 and studied at the German Academy of Film & Television (dffb) in Berlin. His graduation film, “Paul is Dead”, went on to win numerous awards including the prestigious Adolph-Grimme Award in 2001, as well as earning him an invitation to the highly renowned Slamdance Festival that same year. In 1999, together with Achim von Borries, Handloegten also worked on the screenplay with Bernd Lichtenberg and Wolfgang Becker for Becker’s global success “Good Bye, Lenin!”. “Learning to Lie” was adapted to the big screen by Handloegten from Frank Goosen’s best-selling novel “Liegen Lernen”. —german-films.de